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Baa, Baa Black Sheep?
by headisspinning inso, as always, i've been doing some thinking.... today, i was thinking about animals.
specific animals, namely sheep and goats.. when we were kids we had both.
here are my observations:.
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By-Products
by headisspinning inif you believe that the bible's command to 'abstain from blood' was merely a dietary restriction do you make sure to check the labels of meat to see if it contains 'by-products'?
i remember this was a common practice back in the 80's and a lot of hot dogs had by-products so we couldn't eat them.
but i have rarely heard this mentioned in recent years.
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The Loving Disfellowshipping Arrangement
by headisspinning inmy youngest sister is the only person in my jw family who has had any real contact with my husband and i and our baby.
for the first year she cut us off too but then after a while she seemed to realize how horrible it was and she opened up to us.. well, she is very easily influenced by the family and so she cut us off again.
she tried to feed me the line about it being for our own good blah, blah, blah.. here is an excerpt from how i replied:.
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Jooky?
by headisspinning injookbeard was getting all huffy with me.
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i tried to pm him and he said he wanted to keep this public.. then he disappeared.... anyway, i'm here if he wants to to challenge me... :).
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Then & Now
by headisspinning ini was born in the 70's and my jw mother spanked us a lot... actually, beat us is more accurate.
i know of other people from the same generation (lol!
) and it seemed to be somewhat common during that time period within the organization.. i also remember wearing a lot of second hand clothing and having pretty dismal school lunches and we were simply not allowed to ask for anything - needs or wants.
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The Great Tribulation May Have Started
by headisspinning inmy ex husband who is a jw just sent me this:.
"the world is on the precipice of a major multifaceted crisis.
the great tribulation may have just started.. .
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Black and White Thinking
by headisspinning inblack and white thinking is incredibly dangerous.
it is actually one of the diagnostics for borderline personality disorder.
identity issues are also an earmark... .
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Wine Is the Answer
by headisspinning ini am drunk.... today was the day that i realized that i was brainwashed by a cult.. my husband knows it too.
we don't know what to do or where to turn.. at this point, i think drinking wine is the answer.. i really respect barbara anderson and frank kavelin and 'living the dream' (whoever that is).. i am from *********.
i spent 10 years in *****.
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WTF???
by headisspinning inhttp://www.seanet.com/~raines/review.html.
the society at the time believed that some demons or fallen angels were honest and could be saved and return to god's organization.
[6] angels and women, they believed, was channeled or "dictated" to the author by one such fallen angel who was honest and told the truth about pre-flood conditions on earth.
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What Was Meant By 'Abstain From Blood'?
by headisspinning ini have always been very hardcore about my aversion to blood and have never even considered the possibility that this was merely a dietary restriction.
i always bought into the analogy of a doctor telling a patient to abstain from alcohol... it wouldn't matter whether this individual drank the alcohol or took it intravenously... it would all be in direct contradiction to the doctor's orders to 'abstain' from alcohol.. or the other analogy is to an apple pie... if you weren't to eat the pie, it would not be okay to separate it out into the main parts (or 'components)... ie.
the flour, the apples, the sugar or the cinnamon... if they were taken from that pie, you were eating the pie.. so maybe you can see where the questions popped up for me.